Kolkata: West Bengal is the new investment
destination now, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said today
while inviting global investors to make investments in the
state.
She told industrialists at the global business summit
here that there is political stability in the state and "if
you invest in Bengal, Bengal will give everything. There will
be no discrimination".
Banerjee claimed that Maharashtra and other states are
saturated and Bengal is the new investment destination now.
Industrialists and business leaders like Reliance
Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani, CEO of ArcelorMittal L N
Mittal, Sajjan Jindal of JSW group besides Uday Kotak, Kishore
Biyani, Sanjeev Goenka and a host of foreign delegates
attended the Bengal global business summit.
No union minister was present at the summit.
Union minister Nitin Gadkari, who was scheduled to attend
the meet, chose to stay away following alleged attack on the
BJP rally by ruling Trinamool Congress activists on January
12. After the incident, state BJP president Dilip Ghosh had
stated that Gadkari will not attend the summit.
Banerjee said nine major countries have become partners
for the summit including China, Poland, South Korea, Italy and
the UK and "the presence of so many industry leaders shows
that Bengal means business".
She said the state government does not allow strikes and
no man-days were lost in the last six years.
"Even we don't spare our partymen (if they pose problem
for the industry) because we love industry and industry is our
asset," she said.
Banerjee said: "I can assure you one thing. Bengal will
not deprive. We love the unity of India. We love tolerance."
She also spelt out the state government's efforts on
creating infrastructure, both physical and social, as well as
the upward trend in macro parameters like plan and capital
expenditure, state GDP and others.
"We are suffering from 34 years of legacy (of the Left
Front rule). We are facing challenges. But we are doing our
best because Bengal must be the best," Banerjee said. PTI
